(print) ix, 331 p. ; 24 cmEditors' Preface vii -- Acknowledgements xi -- PART ONE : Introduction 3 -- PART TWO : Theoretical Problems of Geography -- Soviet Publisher's Note 21 -- Author's Note 23 -- Chapter One : The Origins of Geography and the Two Trends in Its Development in Ancient Society. Synthesis Under Conditions of Inadequate Concrete Research and Insufficient Ties to Applied Work. 27 -- Chapter Two : The Period of Empirical Development. Initial Attempts to Create Theoretical Geographical Ideas on the Basis of Bourgeois Philosophy. Determinism in the Geography of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 49 -- Chapter Three : Concerning the Influence of the Philosophies of Kant and Hegel on Geography. Alexander Humboldt and Carl Ritter. Elemental Materialism and Dialectical Idealism in Geography. Origins of Geopolitics. Hettner's Theory. 75 -- Chapter Four : The Reinforcement of Empiricism with Inadequate Synthesis. The Significance of The Works of V. V. Dokuchayev and D. N. Anuchin for Geographic Synthesis. Empiricism in Geography and the Training of Geographers in Universities. 114 -- Chapter Five : The Landscape Envelope and the Geographic Environment. The Subject-Matter Essence of the Unity of Geography. The Influence of the Geographic Environment on Society. Determinism in Dialectical Thought. 145 -- Chapter Six : The Methodological Essence of the Unity of Geography. Regionalization as a Specific Form of the Geographical Method. The Geographic Division of Labor. Economic Geography and the Economic Sciences. The Location of Production and the Locational Definition of the Subject Matter of Economic Geography. 198 -- Chapter Seven : Concerning the Boundary between Geographical Analysis and Geographical Synthesis. The Scale of Inquiry in Geography. Regional Geography as a Part of Geography. The Problem of the General and the Particular in Geography. Theoretical and Practical Questions of Geography. 242 -- Notes 286 -- PART THREE : Appendixes -- Appendix One : Summary of Major Conclusions 309 -- Appendix Two : Selected Bibliography of Publications Relating to Theoretical Problems of Geography and the Ensuing Controversy That Have Appeared in English 31
